Nature does what she does without requiring our permission when cloudbursts, droughts, earthquakes, landslides or tsunamis sweep over the earth; but we humans create our own social vulnerability, through ignorance or neglect, which hence becomes our
By Dipak Gyawali May 08, 2015
Narendra Modi should have been the first to understand the incongruity of assigning ASI with task of defining his gift to Pashupati, indeed that the government outfit he heads has no mechanism to deal with such conflicts in Hinduism and falls back on
By Dipak Gyawali Apr 09, 2015
They failed national development in its manifold, whether in surrendering to neo-colonialism in the form of BIPPA or PDA, in failing to revive the national airlines, in providing jobs to our youth getting proletarized in the sands of the Middle East,
By Dipak Gyawali Oct 17, 2014
It was a particularly unfortunate choice of words, for a Nepali folklore saying has it that a puny bird Hutityaun once boasted that it was holding up sky, giving the clear impression that the Our Loktantrick Fathers are no less than the Hutityaun.
By Dipak Gyawali Sep 11, 2014
I can only envy the Indian people for getting a leader like you, and feel sorry for myself that today we don’t have a Jang Bahadur to successfully deal with a Lord Dalhousie, a Chandra Shumshere with the likes of Lords Curzon, Minto, or Chlemsford, o
By Dipak Gyawali Aug 15, 2014
Conflict-ridden societies have produced heart-wrenching great literature. One can name the entire spectrum from Tolstoy’s War and Peace based on the Napoleonic wars in early 19th Century Russia to Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner set against war-tor
By Dipak Gyawali May 09, 2014
The failure of the three parliaments under the 1990 dispensation (and the supreme court of Nepal that gave a half-baked judgement on it) lay in their passing the Mahakali Treaty by brute majoritarianism without first providing that critical definitio
By Dipak Gyawali Apr 05, 2014
In the face of already emerging in-party squabbles, there are limits to which optimism can give solace: even die-hard apologists for the failed 2005 architecture seem to be losing hope so soon and even before CA-2 has been convened and a government h
By Dipak Gyawali Dec 13, 2013
But given India’s powerful bureaucracy which does not like the idea of power moving out of its hands to the private sector, one cannot ignore trip clauses coming into force in the absence of powerful political leadership capable of withstanding burea
By Dipak Gyawali Nov 08, 2013
Kantipur’s Sudhir Sharma’s new exposé Prayogshala, despite its selective documenting of how India’s neighbourhood policy and diplomacy is NOT fed by its spooks but LED by them, only confirms this new adventurism and the less than savory motives that
By Dipak Gyawali Oct 04, 2013